From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer? Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:10:55 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87d5hhddow.fsf@jurta.org> <7dbe73ed0602210546u58493b16me4cfeb68c196107c@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140630220 14014 80.91.229.2 (22 Feb 2006 17:43:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:43:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 22 18:43:38 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FBy1K-0000Sw-QU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:43:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FBy1K-00024Z-4D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:43:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FBnIi-0006Mf-6w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:16:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FBnIJ-0005Py-Cz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:16:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FBnDL-0007DR-5D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:11:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [203.180.232.82] (helo=mgate02.necel.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FBnJh-0005OY-QT; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:17:38 -0500 Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com (relay11 [10.29.19.46]) by mgate02.necel.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k1M61GZ7021774; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:10:56 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.24] [10.29.19.24]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:10:56 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.97.235] [10.114.97.235]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:10:55 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id C4F4B3F7; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:10:55 +0900 (JST) Original-To: "Mathias Dahl" System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0602210546u58493b16me4cfeb68c196107c@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:46:08 +0100") Original-Lines: 26 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:50881 Archived-At: "Mathias Dahl" writes: >> And of course `C-u C-u' is >> no easier than `C-a C-k'. > > Really? I find that the former is much easier to type. Keep Ctrl > pressed and quickly press `u' two times with the same finger. Well, I have plain "C-u" bound to erase the minibuffer -- surprises me occasionally, but very convenient! However, I've always found "C-a C-k" _very_ easy and quick to type -- the initial pinky reach to the control key takes far longer than the following "a" and "k", and because of the way your fingers are positioned on the keyboard, the "a" and "k" are almost free: the "a" is right under your ring finger while you're holding the control key, and the "k" is on the home row of the opposite hand (which hasn't moved). C-a C-k is also pretty much an emacs idiom for killing the current line in situations where a more specialized binding isn't available (I use a program that has "emacs like" keybindings, but where C-k does something nasty, and I have to constantly remind myself not to use C-a C-k... -Miles -- A zen-buddhist walked into a pizza shop and said, "Make me one with everything."